vroooom ptssssh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzwoCADjd9Y&NR

That looks mental, and must take some skill, the last one looks unreal!


Also, never knew the landing gear could turn like that?

Rs Baz

bloody hell some skill in landing them mate.

dave green

starturbo

Main landing gear (under the wings) is on a fixed axle and cannot turn.The nose leg is steerable via hydraulics or electric motor.

rstoughy

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slowpoke

that video is of the being 747 -sp and the 777-200 doing certification testing

and it might look impressive but in the case of the 777 the computers are doing most of that

matt

starturbo

I was gonna say that on board computers will be doing some of that.

slowpoke

the 777 was prob also on autoland too, quite a scary experience when yours traveling at 160 mph towards the earth and you just have to sit there with youre hands on your knees lol

Sean_RS

Fook some of them were mental

Terry Tibbs

Dan Cossie

Graceland

The 3rd video (the Boeing 777) and the 4th (777 again) - looks like they are hovering untill they actually touch down - they are some amazing angles of attack Aeroplane drifting?

RS_JAY

If i was coming down sideways i proberly would fill my trousers with the brown stuff. Ive never seen planes do that until i see this link.

mk1_orion_boy

777's are proper bad boys. The engines are fookin huge when you see em close up! Really cool planes and quiet too. They even have cameras so the pilot can see the engines and other bits of the plane

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...ext_id=0902057 A pic of its cock...pit lol

Eagle

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some nice side slip there

starturbo

The 777 is quite an advanced aircraft.When I worked for Lauda air in vienna one of his 777s was about to land in australia when a component went pearshaped.The pilot didnt need to know because a back up system cut in.The on board computer via satellite sent a message to the hangar in vienna to say what the problem was and the location of the faulty component.

vroooom ptssssh

I thought that too, but from this pic it looks like it's turned? but could be wrong as its not very clear and the angle has prob made it look like it has moved

starturbo

they dont turn mate.I work on em.

slowpoke

only the 777-300's and 200LR's have the cameras

vroooom ptssssh

starturbo, You sure?



LOL jus kiddin mate, I trust you but jus looks like it does from that angle (basically trying to exscuse my stupidness )

slowpoke

the only plane that can turn all its landing gear for landing is the B52 bomber

charlie luciano

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Nice vids there, not a fan of flying and air travel myself cos if anything goes wrong....ya dead


Charlie

tregmatt

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Oranoco

That's what it felt like when we landed at London City airport

Lass I was next to had a stonking hangover and I thought she was going to blow chunks everywhere

Tangodeltasierra3

Rallying in the sky - quality

Homer.

Suddenly getting a car saidways seems much less impressive

starturbo

not always mate.plenty of people escape crashes.Its very rare when a kite goes in compared to the amount that fly every day.Sit near the arse end and there is less to hit you when it comes to a dead stop. thats where they put the black box and they always survive.

Big G

I remember a clip from the old Honk Kong airport, a 747 literally metres from landing suddenly getting blown i would say 60 degrees side on, looked scarily awesome.

trevCOSS

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amazing even if it is a computer doing the business

starturbo

it is computers mate.They got man on the moon years ago after all.The Airbus can taxi out using magnetic strips on the taxi way and take off itself using minimum thrust (auto thrust),fly itself to its destination (pre programmed by the pilot) and taxi to the terminal again.